Patents by Inventor Kengo Takeda
Kengo Takeda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20220242131Abstract: An image recording apparatus, having a discharging head, a fan, and a controller, is provided. The discharging head includes a discharging surface and a plurality of nozzles arranged along a sub-scanning direction, which intersects orthogonally with a main scanning direction. The discharging head is configured to move in the main scanning direction. The fan is configured to generate an airflow for collecting mist of ink discharged through the nozzles. The controller is configured to obtain a droplet size of the ink to be discharged through the nozzles from one of a print job and a printing mode set in advance, obtain a distance between the discharging surface and a printable medium, and control a rotation speed of the fan based on the droplet size and the distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Akihiro KOBAYASHI, Kenta HASEBE, Kengo TAKEDA, Yumiko OSHIKA
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Publication number: 20220195556Abstract: A steel sheet including a steel micro-structure containing, in volume fraction, tempered martensite: 85% or more, retained austenite: 5% or more to less than 15%, and ferrite, pearlite, bainite, and as-quenched martensite being less than 10% in total, when contents of Mn and C in the retained austenite are denoted by MnA and CA, and when contents of Mn and C in a matrix are denoted by MnM and CM, respectively, following Formulas (1) to (3) are satisfied, and the number of carbides having an equivalent circle radius of 0.1 ?m or more is 100 or less in a region measuring 20000 ?m2, and the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1100 MPa or more. The steel sheet is excellent in crash resistance and formability. MnA/MnM?1.2??(1) CA/CM?5.0??(2) CA?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya NAKANO, Kengo TAKEDA, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Akihiro UENISHI
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Publication number: 20220186337Abstract: This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which the area ratio of plate martensite is 10% or more, the average grain size of prior austenite grains is 2.0 ?m to 10.0 ?m, the maximum diameter thereof is 20.0 ?m or less, the amount of solid solution C in martensite is 0.20 mass % or less, the average carbide size is 0.25 ?m or less, the crystal orientation difference between plate martensite and another martensite adjacent thereto in the same prior austenite grain is 10.0° or less, and the P concentration at grain boundaries of the prior austenite grains is 4.0 at % or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kohichi SANO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Kengo TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20220177994Abstract: Provided is a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and structure wherein (Fe, Mn)2 B precipitates having a circle equivalent diameter of 50 to 300 nm are present in a number density of 1/500 ?m2 or more in a surface layer region down to a depth of 100 ?m from the surface in the sheet thickness direction. Further, provided is a method for producing a steel sheet comprising continuously casting a molten steel having a predetermined chemical composition to form a steel slab, wherein the continuously casting includes introducing more than 10 ppm and less than 100 ppm of oxygen into the surface layer of the steel slab, hot rolling including finish rolling the steel slab, wherein a completion temperature of the finish rolling is 650 to 950° C., coiling the obtained hot rolled steel sheet at a coiling temperature of 400 to 700° C., and cold rolling the hot rolled steel sheet, then annealing it.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2019Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo TAKEDA, Yuya SUZUKI, Toyomitsu NAKAMURA, Seiji FURUSAKO
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Publication number: 20220145417Abstract: Provided are: a steel sheet having a high strength and excellent stretch formability; and a method of producing the same. The steel sheet has prescribed chemical composition and structure, in which the integration degree of the (111)<112> orientation of ferrite is 3.0 or higher, and the integration degree of the (252)<2-11> orientation of martensite and tempered martensite is 5.0 or lower. The method of producing the steel sheet includes: the step of continuously casting a molten steel having the prescribed chemical composition, and performing 5 to 40% rolling reduction at a temperature of 800° C. to lower than 1,200° C. in a period after the continuous casting until cooling to room temperature; the hot rolling step of performing hot rolling with a finishing temperature of 650 to 950° C.; the step of coiling the resulting hot-rolled steel sheet at a coiling temperature of 400 to 700° C.; the step of retaining the hot-rolled steel sheet at (coiling start temperature+20° C. to 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo TAKEDA, Hitoshi NIKAIDO, Hiroyuki KAWATA, Takafumi YOKOYAMA
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Publication number: 20220119928Abstract: The present invention relates to steel sheet realizing both formability and weldability. The steel sheet of the present invention is characterized in that at a surface layer part of a region down to 30 ?m from the surface of the steel sheet in the sheet thickness direction, Si oxide grains are present in 3000 to 6000/mm2 in number density, an average of natural logarithms of the particle sizes of the Si oxide grains measured in m units is ?2.0 to ?1.2, the standard error of the natural logarithms of the particle sizes is 0.6 or less, and the number of Si oxide grains with deviations of the natural logarithms of the particle sizes from the average larger than 2 times the standard error is 5% or less of the total number of Si oxide grains and at a position of ½ of the thickness of the steel sheet, the number density of the Si oxide grains is 1000/mm2 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuya SUZUKI, Kengo TAKEDA
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Patent number: 11274356Abstract: A steel sheet having a chemical composition of the base metal including, in mass %, C: 0.17 to 0.40%, Si: 0.10 to 2.50%, Mn: 1.00 to 10.00%, P: 0.001 to 0.03%, S: 0.0001 to 0.02%, Al: 0.001 to 2.50%, N: 0.0001 to 0.010%, O: 0.0001 to 0.010%, Ti: 0 to 0.10%, Nb: 0 to 0.10%, V: 0 to 0.10%, B: 0 to 0.010%, Cr: 0 to 2.00%, Ni: 0 to 2.00%, Cu: 0 to 2.00%, Mo: 0 to 2.00%, Ca: 0 to 0.50%, Mg: 0 to 0.50%, REM: 0 to 0.50%, the balance: Fe and impurities, wherein the steel sheet has an internal oxidized layer in which at least one part of a crystal grain boundary is covered by oxides, and in which a grain boundary coverage ratio of oxides is 60% or more in a region from the surface of the base metal to a depth of 5.0 ?m.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Kengo Takeda, Kunio Hayashi, Akihiro Uenishi, Hiroyuki Kawata, Chisato Yoshinaga, Yasunobu Miyazaki, Toyomitsu Nakamura
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Publication number: 20220063245Abstract: High strength steel sheet improved in formability, bending load, and bendability is provided. The high strength steel sheet has a center part of sheet thickness and a surface soft part formed at one side or two sides of the center part of sheet thickness, has metal structures of the center part of sheet thickness comprised of, by area ratio, tempered martensite: 85% or more, one or more of ferrite, bainite, pearlite, and retained austenite: total of less than 15%, and as-quenched martensite: less than 5%, has metal structures of the surface soft part comprised of, by area ratio, ferrite: 65% or more, pearlite: 5% or more and less than 20%, one or more of tempered martensite, bainite, and retained austenite: total of less than 10%, and as-quenched martensite: less than 5%, has average distances of pearlite at the surface soft part of 3 ?m or more, and has Vickers hardness (Hc) of the center part of sheet thickness and Vickers hardness (Hs) of the surface soft part satisfying 0.50?Hs/Hc?0.75.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya NAKANO, Kengo TAKEDA, Hiroyuki KAWATA
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Publication number: 20220040986Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head, a fixing device and a mist collector configured to collect a mist of a liquid. The mist collector and the fixing device are arranged side by side in this order in a first direction. The mist collector is provided with an air channel having a suction port and an exhaust port. The air channel has: a first part and a second part connected to an other end of the first part. The exhaust port is opened, in the second part, toward any one of directions which are: a direction including a direction opposite to the first direction as a directional component thereof, a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and a second direction, and a direction opposite to the third direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Akihiro Kobayashi, Kengo Takeda, Takahiro Nishimoto
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Patent number: 11243488Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus including: a body casing; a toner image forming section including an image carrier and a transferring section; a fixing section; a heater; a temperature sensor; and a controller. In a case that the temperature is higher than a predetermined threshold value, the controller controls the image carrier and the transferring section such that a conveying velocity of the print medium by the image carrier and the transferring section becomes a first conveying velocity. In a case that the temperature is lower than the predetermined threshold value, the controller controls the image carrier and the transferring section such that the conveying velocity of the print medium by the image carrier and the transferring section becomes a second conveying velocity slower than the first conveying velocity.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun Mihara, Yutaka Kakigahara, Satoshi Murata, Kengo Takeda
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Publication number: 20220011700Abstract: A fixing device 9 has a nozzle unit 9A. The nozzle unit 9A sprays the fixing solution to a sheet S on which a toner image is formed. The nozzle unit 9A has a housing 21, a nozzle electrode 23 and a plurality of nozzles 22. The plurality of nozzles 22 has a first nozzle 22A and a second nozzle 22B located at an interval from the first nozzle 22A in a first direction, and the nozzle electrode 23 is located inside the housing 21. The nozzle electrode 23 extends in the first direction. A length L1 of the nozzle electrode 23 in the first direction is greater than the interval between the first nozzle 22A and the second nozzle 22B in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Yutaka KAKIGAHARA, Masamitsu TAKAHASHI, Satoshi MURATA, Kengo TAKEDA, Masataka KAMIYA
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Publication number: 20220011699Abstract: A fixing device 9 includes a nozzle unit 9A and an opposite electrode 9B. The nozzle unit 9A sprays a fixing solution to a sheet S on which a toner image is formed. The opposite electrode 9B is located at an interval from the nozzle unit 9A. The opposite electrode 9B is applied with a voltage. The opposite electrode 9B has a first flat plate 31 and a plurality of first projections 32. The first flat plate 31 extends in a first direction. The plurality of first projections 32 extends from the first flat plate 31 in a second direction that is a direction facing from the opposite electrode 9B toward the nozzle unit 9A. The plurality of first projections 32 are aligned in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Kengo TAKEDA, Yutaka KAKIGAHARA, Masamitsu TAKAHASHI, Satoshi MURATA, Masataka KAMIYA
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Patent number: 11208705Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet which is a steel sheet having a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more has a predetermined chemical component composition, a metallographic microstructure of the steel sheet contains, by area ratio, ferrite and granular bainite: 10% or more and 50% or less in total, one or both of upper bainite and lower bainite: 10% or more and 50% or less in total, tempered martensite: more than 0% and 30% or less, retained austenite: 5% or more, and one or more of pearlite, cementite, and martensite: 0% to 10% in total, and an area ratio of the ferrite with respect to a total area ratio of the ferrite and the granular bainite is 25% or less.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuri Toda, Kunio Hayashi, Katsuya Nakano, Eisaku Sakurada, Akihiro Uenishi, Kengo Takeda
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Patent number: 11153689Abstract: A loudspeaker including a magnetic circuit; a voice coil body; a diaphragm attached to the voice coil body; a housing which accommodates the magnetic circuit and the voice coil body and to which an outer circumferential portion of the diaphragm and the magnetic circuit are attached; two connection terminals disposed exposed inside and outside the housing; and signal wires which extend from the voice coil body and are connected to the connection terminals. Each signal wire is outwardly curved to be away from a virtual straight line connecting the proximal end of the signal wire and the connection portion. The distal end of the signal wire projects from the connection portion toward the voice coil body.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuji Miyamoto, Kengo Takeda, Kazuma Fujioka
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Publication number: 20210263458Abstract: A fixing device is for fixing a developing agent image to a recording sheet by electrostatically spraying a charged fixing solution toward the developing agent image on the sheet. The fixing device includes a container portion, a plurality of nozzles, and a potential difference generating portion. The container portion is configured to store therein the fixing solution. The plurality of nozzles is in communication with the container portion and configured to spray the fixing solution toward the developing agent image. The potential difference generating portion is configured to generate a potential difference between the fixing solution stored in the plurality of nozzles and the recording sheet conveyed at a position separated from the plurality of nozzles.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Yutaka Kakigahara, Kengo Takeda, Jun Mihara, Satoshi Murata, Shinya Yamamoto, Tomoaki Hattori, Kumiko Sakaguchi, Takayuki Higuchi, Tatsuya Ezaka, Emi Shimizu, Kentaro Murayama
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Patent number: 11067929Abstract: There is provided a fixing apparatus configured to fix a toner image on a print medium by spraying a fixing solution, the fixing apparatus including: a plurality of first nozzles from which the fixing solution is sprayed, a first electrode which extends in a first direction, and which faces the first nozzles in a second direction, a holding groove which accommodates the first electrode, which is configured to hold the fixing solution sprayed from the first nozzles, and which has a discharge port through, and a container configured to contain the fixing solution discharged from the discharge port. The holding groove has a bottom surface which is positioned apart from the first electrode in the second direction so that the fixing solution held in the holding groove passes between the first electrode and the bottom surface to flow toward the discharge port.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi Murata, Yutaka Kakigahara, Jun Mihara, Masamitsu Takahashi, Kengo Takeda
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Patent number: 11009820Abstract: A fixing device is for fixing a developing agent image to a recording sheet by electrostatically spraying a charged fixing solution toward the developing agent image on the sheet. The fixing device includes a container portion, a plurality of nozzles, and a potential difference generating portion. The container portion is configured to store therein the fixing solution. The plurality of nozzles is in communication with the container portion and configured to spray the fixing solution toward the developing agent image. The potential difference generating portion is configured to generate a potential difference between the fixing solution stored in the plurality of nozzles and the recording sheet conveyed at a position separated from the plurality of nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Kakigahara, Kengo Takeda, Jun Mihara, Satoshi Murata, Shinya Yamamoto, Tomoaki Hattori, Kumiko Sakaguchi, Takayuki Higuchi, Tatsuya Ezaka, Emi Shimizu, Kentaro Murayama
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Patent number: 11011021Abstract: Provided is a game system which performs control so as to allow a previously set donation amount to be donated when a user performs a cashing-out operation. A donation management server 40 stores settings related to donations made by a user in a donation setting information table 421 and when the user performs the cashing-out operation on a slot machine 1010, performs control so as to donate a donation amount selected by the user from among donation amount candidates set by the above-mentioned settings made by the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Universal Entertainment CorporationInventor: Kengo Takeda
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Publication number: 20210011407Abstract: There is provided a fixing apparatus configured to fix a toner image on a print medium by spraying a fixing solution, the fixing apparatus including: a plurality of first nozzles from which the fixing solution is sprayed, a first electrode which extends in a first direction, and which faces the first nozzles in a second direction, a holding groove which accommodates the first electrode, which is configured to hold the fixing solution sprayed from the first nozzles, and which has a discharge port through, and a container configured to contain the fixing solution discharged from the discharge port. The holding groove has a bottom surface which is positioned apart from the first electrode in the second direction so that the fixing solution held in the holding groove passes between the first electrode and the bottom surface to flow toward the discharge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoshi MURATA, Yutaka KAKIGAHARA, Jun MIHARA, Masamitsu TAKAHASHI, Kengo TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20210003949Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus including: a body casing; a toner image forming section including an image carrier and a transferring section; a fixing section; a heater; a temperature sensor; and a controller. In a case that the temperature is higher than a predetermined threshold value, the controller controls the image carrier and the transferring section such that a conveying velocity of the print medium by the image carrier and the transferring section becomes a first conveying velocity. In a case that the temperature is lower than the predetermined threshold value, the controller controls the image carrier and the transferring section such that the conveying velocity of the print medium by the image carrier and the transferring section becomes a second conveying velocity slower than the first conveying velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jun MIHARA, Yutaka KAKIGAHARA, Satoshi MURATA, Kengo TAKEDA